Old-Age Digital Exclusion as a Policy Challenge in Estonia and Finland

Alcohol consumption in Estonia and Finland: Finbalt survey 1994-2006

BACKGROUND Alcohol consumption has been regarded as an important contributor to the high premature mortality rates. The objective of this paper was to provide an overview and comparison of alcohol consumption and its socio-demographic determinants among adults in Estonia and Finland. METHODS The study was based on a 25-64-year-old subsample of nationally representative postal cross-sectional ...

Strengthening Political Participation as a Policy Issue in Finland

The article is an effort to analyse one particular policy-making process. The case deals with the policy of strengthening political participation in Finland. The data is based on two recent policy programs on developing democracy, the first between the years 1997-2002 and the second between 2003 and 2007. The data consists of policy documents, reports, and the parliamentary documents connected ...

Competition policy: The challenge of digital markets

Digital Forensics as a Big Data Challenge

Digital Forensics, as a science and part of the forensic sciences, is facing new challenges that may well render established models and practices obsolete. The dimensions of potential digital evidence supports has grown exponentially, be it hard disks in desktop and laptops or solid state memories in mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, even while latency times lag behind. Cloud service...

Nutrition policy in Finland.

The present study describes the main actions in Finnish nutrition policy during the past decades. The main actor is the National Nutrition Council, which provides nutritional recommendations and action programmes, and sets up expert groups to solve nutritional problems in the population. The main fortification programmes have been the iodization of table salt, supplementation of selenium to fer...